Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The guardians of Norwegian “justice” overseeing the trial of Anders Behring Breivik have decided it’s safe to broadcast the testimony of Øyvind Strømmen directly to the public, but not that of Bruce Bawer and Fjordman, whose words will have to be filtered by loyal media lapdogs first.

The Oslo court has destroyed what little credibility it had left with this nakedly political decision.

The court has decided that the testimony of the experts witnesses subpoenaed by the defense, such as the testimony of Øyvind Strømmen, Lars Gule and Matthias Gardell, can be broadcast, but not the testimony of Bruce Bawer and Ole Jørgen Anfindsen.

This basically means that so-called expert witnesses and political activists will have the opportunity to give their personal assessments of political opponents directly to the public, while those whom they criticize, in this case Mr. Bawer and Mr. Anfindsen, are not granted this privilege. Mr. Bawer and Mr. Anfindsen have to rely on journalists who are critical and even hostile to their political views to correctly report their testimony.

The explanation that the court has chosen to justify such a decision with is that it fears that Anders Behring Breivik will seize the opportunity to make offensive remarks during the testimony of Mr. Bawer and Mr. Anfindsen.

The court has decided that the media will be allowed to broadcast the testimony of the following expert witnesses:

Øyvind Strømmen (31 May)

Terje Emberland (31 May)

Tore Bjørgo (31 May)

Frank Aarebrot (June 1)

Brynjar Lia (June 1)

Lars Gule (June 1)

Hanne Nabintu Herland (1 June)

Mattias Gardell (4th June)

Einar Øvereng (5th June)

Ulrik Fredrik Malt (June 8)

Svenn Torgersen (June 8)

Pål Grøndahl (June 11)

Einar Kringlen (June 11)

Tarjei Rygnestad (18 June)

Karl Heinrik Melle (18 June).

[Note from the Baron: I recognize only four of those names, but I’ll wager that our Norwegian readers can fill in some of the other bios. I know that Hanne Nabintu Herland is no friend of Multiculturalism; the other three are lefties.]

Whereas evidence from the political community will not be allowed to be broadcast:

“The court therefore believes it would be unwise to allow the broadcast of the remaining testimony as long as the defendant’s statements are not allowed to be broadcast. The remaining witnesses are for the most part police officers, health professionals, politicians and private individuals who will give evidence concerning the investigation, treatment and observation of the defendant, politics directly or indirectly connected with the defendant via, among others, the extreme right-wing community. Such testimony will typically have the potential to give rise to statements by the defendant. On this basis, the remaining testimony is not permitted to be broadcast.”

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Summer medieval festival in Oslo won't let Breivik monopolize the Maltese Cross, reclaiming it for use at their festival.

Their way of expressing themselves leaves some doubt as to the depths of their knowledge about the knights and their business. Would they possibly see some new connections and dimensions if they went deeper into the history?

There probably are some blank pages about the subject in those history books used in the schools, even more now than ever before.

Unfortunately for the organisers of this festival the public might look into the matter and find out things.

"We need to begin by working upon memories. From the Middle Ages, Islam has participated in the building of a European consciousness in the same way that Judaism or Christianity has. From Shakespeare to Hume, the influences of Islamic civilisation on the literary and philosophical traditions of the time are innumerable. Horizons need to be broadened through the study of these sources, which should be included in the teaching curricula at both secondary and university levels."

The above statement is from The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters symposium in 2007, with special guest Tariq Ramadan.

"A new We", idea also from the same

"European societies will not win the battle against social insecurity, violence and drugs through the sole security-based approach. What we need in our communities are social institutions, civic education, local job-creation, and confidence-building policies."

Since 2007, we are seeing this, with ever more taxpayers' money put in to fund "local job-creation, and confidence-building policies", etc.

This is beginning to look more and more like the trial of Nikola Petkoff in 1947 when the Bulgarian communist party denied the defendant the opportunity to address the court "as it would serve no useful purpose."

- Claiming that Breivik is a right-wing fascist, and a nazi- Claiming that Eurabia is just a theory and has nothing to do with reality- Denying that the media is part of the Eurabia project by not talking about the plan, and by naming the people who point out the plan as right-wing extremists

Since the midnight sun hardly sets in the Arctic during 20 July through 20 August, to avoid fasting longer than 23 hours a day, imams in North Norway have decided to implement the fatwa by the Saudi-Arab mufti Dr Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz Almosleh regarding "prayer" and fasting hours in Arctic areas.

This fatwa will be valid until further notice, as a Turkish delegation is looking closer into the matter on the ground, and their work will be published accordingly.